On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 11:18:27PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 05:43:37PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> - Moving libraries from /usr/lib/ to /usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) in > >> individual packages.
> >> If this is done (like experimental wine has just done) then > >> ia32-libs-tools can stop moving files from /usr/lib to > >> /usr/lib32. > > Oh great, so experimental wine is now also using paths intended for > > multiarch in biarch packages. > > This is an FHS violation, and should be treated as a serious bug. > No, it is using multiarch paths in native packages. The way packages > are supposed to do for multiarch. Maybe it is a bit ahead of the curve > but it is exactly doing what multiarch expects it to do. $ zgrep usr/lib/i486-linux-gnu dists/unstable/Contents-amd64.gz |grep -c wine 921 $ These are biarch packages, using the i486 path on amd64. This is not multiarch at all. > If you think that is wrong then that is a bug in wine. Nothing to do > with ia32-libs-tools. If a package that ships files in the multiarch paths is installed using ia32-libs-tools, where will the resulting biarch package's files be located? Will they not be in the multiarch paths? > > -dev packages don't require a stable release cycle before conversion to > > multiarch. > They do if they need an architecture specific depenency, think perl, > python, ocaml, apache. That has nothing to do with being -dev packages. > They need a multiarch capable extended toolchain, meaning libtool, > pkg-config, You have not demonstrated that this is dependent on the passing of a stable release cycle. If you had any sense at all, you would be working out a design for what *does* need to happen here instead of wasting everyone's time with ia32-libs-tools. > automake, autoconf. Unlikely that anything needs to change here, but not relevant to -dev packages anyway. > They need to work with the existing biarch -dev packages or have to > replace them. Which, again, does not block on having an intervening release cycle. > Last I heart multiarchifying -dev packages was not planed for Stage 1 > of the multiarch proposal. Has that changed? No. Who said that stage 2 has to wait until after squeeze is out? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
